This demonstrates no less than four different ways to do it. "Death and the Knight" does it best, specifying place, day of the week, day of the month, month and year. This is an efficient way to present a time travel narrative. Unfortunately, "Death and the Knight" was the last installment.

Sections 1-20 are the fictional narrative set in historical or contemporary periods whereas I, II, III and IV are mythological writing. Changes in the myths reflect historical changes. III is about the goddess Nehalennia and IV is a prayer to the Virgin Mary, as discussed in recent posts.

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Yes, I agree the way Poul Anderson dated the different sections of "Death And The Knight" was efficient, and helped to prevent readers from getting confused. I don't know if it would have worked for all of the Time Patrol stories, but for some such a system would have been useful.